2020
2020
- One-way street for electrons - scientists observe directional energy transport between molecules of a nanomaterial.
Conical intersections play an essential role in directional energy relaxation and conversion in molecules. An international team led by Antonietta De Sio has now observed experimentally for the first time that such conical intersections also ensure ultrafast, directed energy transport between neighbouring molecules of a nanomaterial. The results could, for example, help to develop more efficient nanomaterials for organic solar cells or other optoelectronic components in the long term.Original publication: www.nature.com/articles/s41565-020-00791-2
University press release: www.presse.uni-oldenburg.de/mit/2020/192.html - State funds digitisation project by Prof. Dr. Caterina Cocchi
Caterina Cocchi's project SMART ("Simulations meet experiments on the nanoscale: Opening up the quantum world to artificial intelligence") aims to elucidate quantum mechanical processes using innovative methods of computer physics and ultrafast physics, in particular the interaction of light and matter on the scale of a few nanometres (billionths of a metre). The team, including other physicists from Oldenburg and partners from the University of Bremen, wants to develop digital tools, for example, to automatically combine the results of experiments and simulations. New visualisation software will also make the movement of charge carriers within nanomaterials clearly visible.
You can find the university's full press release here. - Storm in the wind tunnel
Turbulence is an omnipresent phenomenon - and one of the great mysteries of physics. A team of researchers from Oldenburg has now succeeded in generating realistic storm turbulence in the wind tunnel at the Centre for Wind Energy Research (ForWind) at the University of Oldenburg.
You can find a press release here. - Nobel Prize in Physics for research into black holes inspires Oldenburg-Bremen research group.